It’s been 7 years since “Rhodes fell” – here’s how it...
April 9, 2022 marked seven years since the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from its plinth at the University of Cape...
Mandatory vaccinations in workplaces are taking effect in South Africa
South African cellphone giant MTN is the latest company that has introduced mandatory vaccinations for all its employees. There have been questions around the...
What is in a word – ableism
What is in a word, ableism, that is what. Yes, I can imagine the able bodied are busy trying to “get back to normal”...
WhatsApp wants to share your data with Facebook. Here’s why that’s...
The messaging platform has told users to allow it to share more of their data with parent company Facebook or have their account shut...
Corona on the other side of wealth
Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu or “I am because you are” is how we describe the meaning of Ubuntu. It speaks to the phenomena that we...
Hey Cyril, the family’s got some questions for you …
These days, the only interesting thing about the country’s occasional family meetings is working out whether our aunties on Whatsapp have got the time...
Ling Shepherd: My life with a Covid-19 denialist
Many of us have entertained some kind of coronavirus conspiracy in the last year. I confess that I found myself down coconut bread and...
The DA’s Deluded or Demagogue Approach To Stellenbosch University
By Luke Waltham
The DA’s Federal Congress over the last weekend has resulted in a number of reactions and thoughts by voters, critics and commentators...
Ending Extreme Poverty: We speak to three unemployed women to understand...
A new household survey has The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM) recently revealed the extent of unemployment and hunger...
Calling myself “Coloured” gives me the ability to choose new meanings...
Chris Beilings believes persisting with the term “Coloured” is an act of defiance in itself.
The past few months have seen a high volume of...
I don’t have exes
A personal essay by Thembelihle Ngcai
I’m the only disabled person in my family. I was one of the very few visibly disabled people...
If Not The ANC, Then Who?
If parliament had 24 months to make the Electoral Act constitutional by allowing individual citizens to contest elections at all levels, we are now...
Doha Peace Deal and the Security Implications for India
The United States and the Taliban signed a historic peace agreement in Doha on Feb 29, 2020. The deal calls for complete withdrawal of...
A Note About Opening The Mosques
By Fatima Fatima Est
More than a thousand years ago, some men wrote against the presence of women at mosques. Contrary to the Prophetic practice...
Food Aid Parcels In South Africa Could Do With A Better...
Hester Vermeulen, University of Pretoria; Carmen Muller, University of Pretoria, and Hettie Carina Schönfeldt, University of Pretoria
Food insecurity is a reality for many South...
The ANC Government Needs To Audit These Colonial White Schools
This useless government needs to intervene in these White private and public schools with urgency. Black children are dying physically, spiritually and psychologically.
Most times...
Capitalism Realised, Not Idealised
COMMENT
In an article written for Rapport titled “Our Problem? Too little rather than too much capitalism” Professor Johan Fourie, an economics professor at Stellenbosch...
Free Speech, A Pillar Of Decolonisation
COMMENT
In 1988 something bizarre happened in the literary world. The novel, a genre in it’s recline into irrelevance, was given a rude awakening. A...
The Fight Against Gun Violence In Atlantis, My Community
COMMENT
When I think of the word “home” I think of safety, but I come from Atlantis, on the outskirts of Cape Town. The place...
ASEAN Should Show True Leadership On Rohingya This General Assembly
COMMENT
Two years on, Asia is no closer to ending its worst refugee crisis in decades. Over 900,000 Rohingya are in Bangladesh alone, including 759,000...
